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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4822938" data-attributes="member: 2067">In my case, your hypothesis is very, very confirmed.I frequently play with people brand new to the game. I don't want to say "Learn your powers! Memorize these rules! This is how you pretend to be an elf!"I want to ask: "How do you pretend to be an elf?" and then have rules to adjudicate it when that elf might not succeed at what she wants to do.That's also the way I prefer to DM: to think of a cool effect, and then come up with rules that are used in that circumstance. That cool effect can come out of left field in the midst of play (and usually does), so I can't plan ahead for it -- I can't say "this is an NPC and this is a monster and this is an ally," I have to say "This is some dude. What do you do with him?"DMing under the other paradigm is insanely frustrating for me, and is one of my biggest beefs with 4e (which, again, is not a horrible game), because it requires at least three different types of balance all at once to provide for every contingency.The stunt rules are solid, but they're weak (they don't provide for different conditions or effects, so that's hard to adjudicate on the fly), and they don't replace the powers system (which is another one of my big beefs with 4e, in part because of dumb stuff like martial dailies).And I think there's a better middle ground than FATE or T20 or some of the really abstract systems out there. Somewhere out there is a world where a charge is different than a taunt or a disarm and yet I don't need to couch them in arcane rulespeak in order to use them and balance them with each other.</blockquote>

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